I believe them. You don't see Codies resting on their laurels with their other racing titles (just look at the evolution of DiRT to DiRT 2, and now the 3rd) and I think these guys really do care about making the game the best it can be. They've nailed the weather system so only minor tweaks are needed there I imagine. Making the AI more challenging at the higher difficulty levels is a must, as it's far too easy to win, especially in the lower cars.

I think the graphics and overall look of the game are superb, but perhaps Codemasters could up the vividness a bit. Every racing game they do has this strange filter that dulls a lot of the scenery.

Really, I am expecting an expansion and improvement on everything they started in F1 2010. They have made a superb game from the off, and that should bode well for future editions.

Just raced at silverstone on a 50% race, I kinda fell asleep towards the end and lost my mojo and kept spinning and lost my 30 second lead and dropped to 6th. That didn't bug me too much, but when I crossed the finish line and I'd WON THE RACE, despite it showing Alonso as the winner before I'd crossed the finish line!

In September Eurogamer exclusively revealed that Codemasters had begin work on the next instalment in the F1 franchise.

I did chuckle when I saw that, I'll exclusively reveal that F1 2012 will be in production within months ;)

I hope to be meeting the developers in the coming months and that blur thing has got to go along with the bumping on the in-car cam. But it's good to know just how much Codies are monitoring the feedback and acting upon it, F1 is made by a very passionate team and I'm looking forward to future installments.

Okay, so next race, off to Valencia. I am running in 14th after my pitstops, brake to late for the first corner and lose a lot of places having to reverse.

So I am in 19th, with Senna 20th crossing the finishing line, or am I? The results show Senna won and lapped the entire field.

No more career mode for me, two races in a row ruined by bugs.

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So on to Montreal. Being a track where the opposition isnt ridiculous fast (catalunya..) I had a good qualifying lap putting me fourth on the grid. In the race I stay in fourth till lap 7 of 21, make my pitstop and return on primes. I spin at l'Epingle and get passed by Kubica, and some other guys who still had to pit of course have overtaken me too now.

So on to the last four laps, I am in eighth with Schumacher on my tail. On my way to my first points finish, I get nervous, but I hold on to eighth, with Schumacher on my tail... only to see the results show me in ninth with Schumacher winning who has lapped the whole field...

WTF!!!

I am seriously close to giving up on career mode now; it is horrible that results shown do not reflect actual race results. That is just crap.

Cheers for that, I've googles it too seems pretty common it's a shame really was pretty disappointed was the first time I'd done a race that long, id had peculiar results before where I'd won the the race and lapped the field didnt really give it too much thought as I had actually won, but this time I hadn't

I'll be pleased with F1 2011 if it actually works as an F1 game as 2010 certainly never did for me.

Even thinking about the game and the things that annoyed me, the stupid bloody kerb thing for example... bah. I should trade it in so im not tempted.

I agree that some of the kerbs are too slippy, and it's especially frustrating in Time Trial, when you've nailed a lap up to a point, confidence is rising, and you try and take a bit too much kerb in a corner in the final sector. Slap, bang, wallop you've spun.

I agree that some of the kerbs are too slippy, and it's especially frustrating in Time Trial, when you've nailed a lap up to a point, confidence is rising, and you try and take a bit too much kerb in a corner in the final sector. Slap, bang, wallop you've spun.

You can take all kerbs at Hockeheim with impunity. But with Korea there is far too much punity.

I can certainly appreciate what some poeple have been saying about the quality of racing in open lobbies. It's the same across the board so not confined to F1 2010 sadly.I am running a FULL 2011 F1 series through my webiste this year. There's a fair bit of interest already and due to the nature of the participants, fair and decent racing is assured.If anyone is interested in the TORA GPWC 2011 then have a butchers at http://toraonlinerac...forumotion.net/ for more info.We are MSA affiliated too so if that doesn't say something about our standards I don't knwo what does ;)

I got GT5 for Christmas and compared to F12010, GT5 is utter shyte in my opinion. THAT is an arcade game. 1000 people have a hissy fit about the fact that no 3rd sector time is shown in F12010, whereas in GT5, the entire Championship standings screen is omitted and nobody says a word. I guess that's because the demographics of the 2 games players are vastly different...

I suffered through GT5 for a few weeks. It was just as poorly completed as F12010, and they took so long to finish it, most car models are out of date, and most models are incomplete. The bug fixes came once a a week. Sold it.

GT5 players like the game because it has shiny cars and it is EASY. Single most boring game ever. It's a unique mind set that enjoys a game where half of it is watching hands-off replays for hours on end.

As for the physics..sigh, I doubt the Lambo Muira had traction control and anti-lock. Racing is fake, on fake tracks, fake classes, even the "real" tracks are too wide and too smooth.

It will be interesting to see just how much new stuff will be in it. I mean it's clearly going to be just an expansion of the original game, but I wonder if they'll make any major changes to the AI etc.

It will be interesting to see just how much new stuff will be in it. I mean it's clearly going to be just an expansion of the original game, but I wonder if they'll make any major changes to the AI etc.

I'm fairly sure they will... They have a good base to work from, and any changes that are needed can be prioritised seeing as they've most of the basics nailed.

I'm fairly sure they will... They have a good base to work from, and any changes that are needed can be prioritised seeing as they've most of the basics nailed.

You would hope so. They've really just got to design the new car models, fairly straight forward.. design a new track.. again not a huge task and then they'll be free to fine tune and add features. You would think it's can't possibly go wrong but we'll see.

If you use the PC version you can't be without the AI update made by a bunch of programmers and testers. You can find it at 'race department' (google it) and the file is called something like AI toolkit.

It pretty much eliminates the areas where the AI suddenly slow down for no good reason . I tweaked some of the AI files myself too and now Melbourne is a serious test. Best I've managed so far is to put it on 10th on the grid and get up to 5th in the race driving the Red Bull. Previously I could win it with a Renault.